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* ObsoleteOccupation: Dirk Moeller's father was a butcher at a time when science had perfected synthetic meat, thus rendering him nearly obsolete.
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* ThrownFromTheZeppelin'': When the BigBad tries to recruit sleazy State Department official Phipps into his conspiracy. Phipps denounces him as a traitor and offers him a chance at redemption. A minute later, Phipps is dead, although the BigBad suggests that [[MortonsFork he would have killed him even if he’d said yes, due to being unable to trust a man who took bribes.]]
--> '''Schroeder''': Last chance, pal. Join the club.
--> '''Phipps''': Or what? You're going to kill me? Be serious, Jean. If it came to that, I could break your neck while you were still trying to get up off that chair.
--> '''Schroeder''': Oh yes, you were Special Forces, and I'm just a soft Ivy Leaguer. I remember that. You're right, of course. I could never kill you. It would be foolish of me to try. I could never get away with it. But I know someone who could.
--> ''Cue Phipps being stabbed InTheBack.''
--> '''Schroeder''': Last chance, pal. Join the club.
--> '''Phipps''': Or what? You're going to kill me? Be serious, Jean. If it came to that, I could break your neck while you were still trying to get up off that chair.
--> '''Schroeder''': Oh yes, you were Special Forces, and I'm just a soft Ivy Leaguer. I remember that. You're right, of course. I could never kill you. It would be foolish of me to try. I could never get away with it. But I know someone who could.
--> ''Cue Phipps being stabbed InTheBack.''
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TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, Earth and its colonies are a low-ranking member of the [[TheFederation Common Confederation]], a multi-species galactic political union, similar to the old United Nations, having completed its probationary period only a few decades ago. Among humanity's trade partners and military allies are the Nidu, a [[TheReptilians [[LizardFolk reptilian]] [[TheEmpire empire]] with a strict hierarchical clan-based social structure. The Nidu themselves are seen by most CC members as a Third World nation, but humanity is an even weaker Third World nation.
* LizardFolk: The Nidu are an upright-walking reptilian race. While they primarily communicate by speaking, they can also communicate subtext via precisely-modulated odors. They are a clan-based society, with the ruling clan imposing a strict hierarchy and exerting a totalitarian control over everything.
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* TheReptilians: The Nidu are an upright-walking reptilian race. While they primarily communicate by speaking, they can also communicate subtext via precisely-modulated odors. They are a clan-based society, with the ruling clan imposing a strict hierarchy and exerting a totalitarian control over everything.
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** Zach Porter's widow and in-laws, who are fundamentalist Christians and vocally anti-abortion, refuse to let the authorities terminate the pregnancy of the sheep hybrid on the grounds that it's a human life. However, neither the doctor nor the veterinarian overseeing the birth seem unduly pressed about saving the sheep hybrid herself, and she dies giving birth.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: Arthur Montgomery creates a menagerie of animal-human hybrids catering to some...very specific tastes. When he's murdered and the news gets out, a large number of his "clients" commit suicide rather than face a world that knows their predilections.
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* MurderSuicide: [[spoiler:Narf-win-Getag blackmails an auf-Getag official with the knowledge that said official likes having sex with aliens (a big taboo in Nidu culture) and then informs his more conservative butler. The butler lets his master know of his displeasure with a shotgun blast to the face and then, as befits a proper Nidu servant, turns the gun on himself]].
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* MurderSuicide: [[spoiler:Narf-win-Getag CorruptCorporateExecutive Arthur Montgomery attempts to blackmail another CEO, Zach Porter, with the information that Porter has been frequenting what amounts to a zoophiliac brothel and, in doing so, has impregnated a sheep/human hybrid; rather than fold, Porter chooses this option.
**[[spoiler:Narf-win-Getag blackmails an auf-Getag official with the knowledge that said official likes having sex with aliens (a big taboo in Nidu culture) and then informs his more conservative butler. The butler lets his master know of his displeasure with a shotgun blast to the face and then, as befits a proper Nidu servant, turns the gun on himself]].
**[[spoiler:Narf-win-Getag blackmails an auf-Getag official with the knowledge that said official likes having sex with aliens (a big taboo in Nidu culture) and then informs his more conservative butler. The butler lets his master know of his displeasure with a shotgun blast to the face and then, as befits a proper Nidu servant, turns the gun on himself]].
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** [[spoiler:One of the attackers during the fight at the Arlington Mall]] uses the alias [[Music/EltonJohn Reginald Dwight]]. (The name could also be a shout out to actor Dwight Schultz and his character, Reginald Barclay on [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek: The Next Generation]] and [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Star Trek: Voyager]].
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** [[spoiler:One of the attackers during the fight at the Arlington Mall]] uses the alias [[Music/EltonJohn Reginald Dwight]]. (The name could also be a shout out to actor Dwight Schultz and his character, Reginald Barclay on [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Star Trek: The Next Generation]] and [[Series/StarTrekTheNextVoyager [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Star Trek: Voyager]].
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** The feckless Secretary of Trade is a Mr. [[Franchise/BillAndTed Theodore Logan Preston]] Soram VI.
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* VirtualSidekick: Harry Creek creates an AI version of his dead best friend Brian in order to help him on his quest to find the last Android's Dream sheep.
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* NoodleIncident: Apparently, there is a long and detailed story behind how Quaker Oats became the largest mainstream information and technology system in the world, but the narrative doesn't elaborate beyond that.
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* ApologeticAttacker: After getting to know Archie and bonding over their respective spiritual quests, Takk is really regretful over [[spoiler:being forced to eat him]]. Archie forgives him, though, merely asking him to let his lover Sam know that he loves him.
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* ApologeticAttacker: After getting to know Archie and bonding over their respective spiritual quests, Takk is really regretful over [[spoiler:being forced to eat him]]. Archie forgives him, though, merely asking him to let his lover Sam know that he loves him.them.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Secretary of Defense Pope [[UnwittingPawn lets himself be used by Schroeder]] to help sabotage Human-Nidu relations due to recognizing that being associated with the unpopular (yet still stronger) Nidu society is turning humanity into an intergalactic joke. Once those relations are thoroughly sabotaged, the Nidu send their entire armada (which could [[CurbStompBattle annihilate the humans space navy without even trying]] to blockade Earth. To his credit, Pope is quick to admit how badly he's screwed up and join Ben in trying to salvage the mess.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Robin's adoptive parents came from a town with only five families and a ''lot'' of inbreeding. They promptly moved away but were told that they had enough common DNA to make their doctor strongly advise against conceiving a child, causing them to become foster parents instead.
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** CorruptBureaucrat Phipps also starts displaying more integrity once the Nidu Fleet is threatening Earth, earnestly discussing how to handle Robin's court case with Ben, and refusing to join Schroeder after being told his entire plan and offered a place in it.
